>From what I know, admin routing is mostly an organizational tool. However, if you are using othAuth, it does simplify access control. You only have to add 'admin' to the $othAuthRestrictions array, and all your admin routes are covered.
And as far as layouts go, you could put the following line in beforeFilter() in app_controller.php if(substr($this->params['action'], 0, 6) == 'admin_') $this->layout = 'admin'; Russell Austin On May 6, 4:35 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all - > Cake newbie, first post. > > Can somebody simply explain the advantages of using Cake's built-in > admin routing? > > I have it enabled and understand the base functionality and it seems > to me that it just generates a lot of duplicate code and doesn't > necessarily help out with auth or acl. I feel like I'm missing the > point. > > In a nutshell I want to use a different layout, auth and acl for the > admin section. I'm just getting the impression that I'm going to have > to write my own admin controller... is this the case, or what am I > overlooking? > > Thanks for the help! > McFadly > <gushing>Loving Cake so far. Wish I would have realized the power a > year ago.</gushing> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
